Possibly going dark for a while

[carbonel]

I mentioned this already, but minnehahaK encouraged me to post closer to the time, so here it is.

Tomorrow I take the train to Chicago, and Tuesday I'm having a vitrectomy done on my left eye. This is a procedure where the vitreous humor is removed from the eye, the hole in the retina is repaired, and a bubble of nitrous oxide is put in the eye to hold the repair in place.

I then get to spend a week face-down to keep said bubble in place, and can't fly for a couple of months, until the bubble is completely gone.

If I can read, I'm in great shape to keep myself amused: Jhegaala, Victory of Eagles (the new Temeraire novel), and Kushiel's Mercy. Plus the rest of a bag of assorted stuff that I bought at my latest trip to DreamHaven, of which I just finished The Green Glass Sea, and am looking forward to reading the Sarah Tolerance novels when I can deal with smallish print.

If not, I've got audiobooks loaded on my iPod. The most frustrating thing I envision is that I won't be able to do any handwork -- I'm used to knitting or spinning while I watch TV or listen to audiobooks. I didn't manage to acquire guppiecat's DVD of old SF radio shows, but maybe that will happen later.

With luck, my vision will come back to 100% over the next year or two, except that there's a large likelihood (one retinologist says 75%, the other 99%) that I'll develop a cataract in the left eye from the mucking about.

Assuming everything goes according to plan, I'll return from Chicago a week from Thursday.

I'm trying not to think about all the things that can go wrong -- or the fact that someone is going to be poking sharp objects into my eye on purpose, with my permission.

Comments

[cowfan.livejournal.com]

I hope all goes well and that you end up with 100% vision in that eye. If you do need cataract surgery, it's not bad, and they can give you better vision with the new lens they put in. It sounds like you have good plans in place to keep occupied. I didn't have trouble reading with my other eye after my retinal surgeries.